MORE CHICAGO

Oakeater - "White Tail Woods" (Live Track, year unknown at the moment)



Super awesome live track. Sorry for the bitrate, you have no idea how hard it is to find something by these guys that isn't the collaboration track on wvndrkmmr.

Saw these guys last summer at the Matchitehew Assembly (along with Marblebog, Bloodyminded, Ashdautas, Volahn, Rusted Shut, Bone Awl, Wormsblood, Krieg, and many more), and these guys were one of the most impressive acts there. Evil, crushing, fantastic.

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Chicago!

Sun Splitter - "I" and "II"



Get CRUSHED. Super heavy and super noisy and super unknown boys from Chicago.

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Unexpected Eastern Wonders

Fu Xi - "In the Quiet Road" (2009)



This really came out of nowhere, I mean, no one really knows about any sort of a Chinese scene outside of Empylver and such. This is some wonderful folk/doom metal. The best way I could describe it is if Tenhi was from China and also liked distortion from time to time. Ethereal and wonderful.

Did I mention this album features extensive play of some of my favorite folk instruments, the erhu and the pipa? LOVE.

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Blogger's note: This is better than the whole Pest Productions crew. Just saying.

Shameless Self Promotion

Eitarnora - "Maiden of Golden Hair"



Myself and a dear friend making really, really lo-fi American-styled folk tunes, with whatever fusion happens in my guitar playing

No download link.

BUY ME HERE

STREAM NEW TRACKS HERE

MEGAPOST

Pyramids (collaborating with EVERYONE) - "wvndrkmmr" box set



Tape 1 - CLICK
Featuring:
Neuntotder der Plage
TenHornedBeast
Burial Hex
Rabbit Girls
Black Seas of Infinity
Wicked Messenger
Josh Lay
Sigillum Dei
Black Roller Crop Rotation
9922

Tape 2 - CLICK
Featuring:
Fear Falls Burning
Yen Pox
Encomiast
Exit In Grey
The Spirit Dies
Luasa Raelon
WYRM
Sin Of A Higher Strain
Drowning the Virgin Silence
Paradin

Tape 3 - CLICK
Featuring:
Windy & Carl
Bjerga / Iversen
Fences
Werju
Le Knell
Andrew Weathers
Bones of Seabirds
Mystified
Nicholas Szczepanik
Nils Helstrom

Tape 4 - CLICK
Featuring:
Amber Asylum
Bass Communion
Hoor-Paar-Kraat
Light of Shipwreck
True Color of Blood
Teeth Collection
Great Falls
Hiroki Sasajima
Jeremy Bible
Ofthesky
Rise of Because

Tape 5 - CLICK
Featuring:
Mamiffer
Ala Muerte
Romance of Young Tigers
This Will Destroy You
Ulan Bator
Across Tundras
At the Head of the Woods
Blood Fountains
Ghoul Detail
Lunar Miasma
Oakeater

It took forever to download this and upload it yet again, so please say thank you or something.

Trippy

Bird from the Abyss - "III" (2010)



Official download!

BANDCAMP

The Return

Bastard Noise - "A Culture of Violence" (2010)



It's good to know that Man is the Bastard is back, and even better.

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WHY GOD WHY

My Bloody Valentine - "Loveless @ 8kbps" (2010)

"It sounds like whales mating" -Chase Stevens

BLEEP BLOOP

Still alive

Ysigim - "Ain Soph Or" (1994)



To make up for it, here's some obscure funeral doom. Also weird.

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ANGRY

Sylvester Staline - "Gonna Spread Hard Drugs To Your Stupid Kids With The Royalties Generated By This CD" (2005)



Angry, angry, angry powerviolence from France. This album is worth it for the cover of the Tetris Theme alone.

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Puddin' Pops and Pokemans

Bill Cosby - "Badfoot Brown & the Bunions Bradford Funeral Marching Band" (1971)



Bill Cosby does not funny things, too.

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Weirdgrass

Punch Brothers - "Punch" (2008)



Everyone's heard Nickel Creek's sentimental cover of Outkast's "Hey Ya." No one's ever heard their semi-off kilter bluegrass band, Punch Brothers. Concept alternative-bluegrass album concerning a divorce (The Blind Leaving the Blind in 4 Movements), with elements of the Schoenbergian school of 12-tone serialism. Not your standard Americana release. Recommended.

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PS) I looked everywhere for this. I'd appreciate some appreciation :P.

Edit: "The Blind Leaving The Blind" is considered a "classical bluegrass" composition, written for a quintet, debuted in Carnegie Hall. Serious business.

Kill Yourself.

Welter In Thy Blood - "The Transference Of Misery" (2009)



DOOM: IT'S WHAT THOU WILT(ER).

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PS) If anyone has the new album, email me the link. THANKS.

KA-ME-HA-ME-HAAAAA

I Hate Myself - "10 Songs" (1997)





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Superlong gr1m album title

Peordh - "Glaring From Spacious Woods And Mountains Of Eternal Frost" (2007)



Virginia, eh? Take THAT West Coast!

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Been caught binging

Breakwater - "EP" (1995)



I've been binging on old screamo and emo. This stuff is pretty awesome, albeit forgotten.

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Nostalgia, you say?

Polaris - "Music from The Adventures of Pete & Pete" (1999)



I miss old Nickelodeon. This was my favorite show back in the day.

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Fuck the Futur

Rainbow of Death - "Rainbow of Death" 10" (2007)



Most of you know of the drone/doom monolith "Monarch!", however, you've probably never heard their one-off powerviolence project, Rainbow of Death. If the fact that it's drone/doom guys doing some of the most ripping powerviolence I've ever heard doesn't get you, just look at their vocalist, Emilie. She's adorable.



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LOUD

Aderlating - "Devotional Hymns" (2010)



No one seems to have this. Let's fix that. mp3@320 for all you audiophiles.

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Grime

Nivathe - Enveloped in a Diseased Abyss (2008)



Thick, trudging black/doom starring everyone's favorite maniac from Senthil.

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Don't hate, appreciate.

Compilation - "Take Me Home - A Tribute to John Denver" (2000)



Low, Red House Painters, Mark Kozelek collaborating with Rachel Goswell of Slowdive fame? Count me in. I grew up listening to John Denver's music, and though this compilation significantly lacks in "Rocky Mountain High," it makes up with its high levels of sheer awesome.

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Ekkaia - "Sombras del Progreso" (2006)



What's that? You don't like crust? Guess again.

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PS) It's missing a track. Go cry about it.

CASCADIA

Leech - "Against Leviathan" (2007)



Leech doesn't approve of your bootleg Fauna t-shirt.

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Forgotten

Bosse - Echoes of the Forgotten (2008)



This is one of those bands that people just suddenly forgot, and it's a real shame. In 2008 we saw the release of the "III" EP, "What Night Brings..." (a split with DSBM band Trancelike Void), and this full length. Soon after, Bosse dropped off of the map...HOWEVER, this NY depressor appears to have released a new EP this year. I need to find it.

Bosse is a minimalist, extremely sad "folk" project, containing elements of drone and post-rock. Lost, but now found.

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Such a strnge msspelling

Carissa's Wierd - You Should Be At Home Here (2001)



IT'S SO SAD. It's even more sad that they split up and formed Band of Horses. Rec'd by Cam, cause he wanted some non-Low slowcore, and I must deliver.

:(

GARRY FUCKIN' BRENTS

They Mostly Come Out At Night - Built Upon This Earth (2009)



Garry Brents played (author's note: MAKE MORE) bass for this band. Also he's better than you in more ways than one. You can hear his new stuff here.

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Quit your day job, guys.

Nyarlathotep - Slub Lorth in Eternal Rest (2001)

Too kvlt for a demo cover, I guess.

You wouldn't guess it, but this band that sounds eerily like Evoken "boasts" Gunface MacKenzie and Gregory Weeks from The Red Chord and Beyond the Sixth Seal, two god awful -core bands.

Get CRUSHED

France

The Skaden - You Will Hope I Had Died (2009)



Stefan Kozak of Eikenskaden and Mystic Forest still makes music, apparently. Thank god.

Dear France,

You're really good at black metal.

Love,
Jon

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Folkrian

Unlucky Atlas - The Ruin of All Space (2006)


Here's a picture of Locrian.

I can't even begin to tell you how long it took me to find this. Chicago mainstays T. Hannum and A. Foisy of Locrian making awesome folk with their wives.

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Silly Nazis

Eisenwinter - Verkommen, Entartet Und Verreckt (2007)



Goofy, drunk, melodic black metal that has more in common with Bad Religion than one might think. Aside from the whole Naziism thing, that is. Expect a new album this year, at least from what I've heard.

And yes, that is an ice skating gestapo. I hope this guy isn't serious.

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Pretty things

Musk Ox - Musk Ox (2009)



It's like Kveldssanger part two, but not. Naturey neofolk from Canada, and I'm seeing em with Vindensang and Sequences in August. Woo.

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PS) Sorry about being dead and all. I know you'll forgive me.